Portrait of a Room

As a photographer, the word "portrait" is for people. It's a face, eyes, nose, mouth, neck, shoulders. Sometimes more. Sometimes a little less. But it's distinctly a person. After all, a portrait is to show character.

But as a writer, a portrait can be of anything. My favourite Creative Writing professor emphasised to me over and over again that the setting was just as much a character as the people in the story... In fact, I can think of many stories to tell without a single breathing thing entering the picture.

Because of this, because I am a writer, I am a different kind of photographer. A portrait isn't just of a person. A picture is not interesting only if it has eyes staring back at you... This is my first experiment with an official portrait of something other than a person. I've done this a hundred times before, but this time, it's here for you to see. Imagine it as if you were reading it in a book. Who belongs here? What might be happening? Use your imagination... I'm barely setting the stage.

(Obviously, this is my stuff, but that's not the point... I just find it fascinating to put the pieces of a puzzle together in a different, creative way...)